Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 389 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1641
  • Violators: 406
  • Issues: 53
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding what a link points to
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 2.4.4
• Reported by 8 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + Editoria11y + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 263
• Violators: 71

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <a data-ga="Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network|click|Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network|1" href="https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=0d48a33b1c24d257734cc2a79&amp;id=5e66c6849c">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/article[7]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 365, y = 3322, width = 309, height = 174
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the link not named issue for HTML element 389 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. Links must have discernible text; Element does not have text that is visible to screen readers; aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty; aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty; Element has no title attribute

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: link-name

2. Hyperlink has no link text, label or image with a text alternative

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: a_text_purpose

3. Links must have an accessible name

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: link-name

4. [failed] The test target doesn't have an accessible name, or it's empty ('').

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R12

5. This link has no accessible name.

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: link-name-present